Hey folks :)
Here's your weekly serving of Wikidata news. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Discussions
- Discussion over property creation guidelineshttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Clarifying_the_requirements_for_property_creation - Open RfA: JurgenNLhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/JurgenNL
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogshttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Lydia will give an update on Wikidata at the WMF Metrics and Activities meetinghttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2014-05-01 - Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thonhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Indian_Parliamentarian_Label-a-thon is taking place to add labels for all members of the Lok Sabha. - In May, edit-a-thons hounouring Adrianne Wadewitzhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16438247 are taking place to add more gender related information to Wikidata. - Wikidata office hour on May 19th at 17:00 UTC.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Time and geocoordinates have been reworked and need some testing at test.wikidata.org. Found issues? Let Lydia know.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: coordinates of the point of viewhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1259 , Rotten Tomatoes ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1258, depicts Iconclass representation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1257, Iconclass notation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1256, Helveticarchives ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1255, Slovenska biografija ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1254, BCU Ecrivainsvdhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1253 , AUSTLANG code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1252, ABS ASCL code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1251
Development
- Worked on making it possible to use languages not supported by MediaWiki in Wikidata - We now also display statements with "no value" or "unknown value" on the client (when using the parser function or Lua) - Created another maintenance script to fix data integrity issues - Finishing touches on the first version of the new entity suggester - Simple queries are starting to work (If you want to see a demo attend the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting) - Worked more on making error messages localizable - Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7.4https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#version-074-2014-04-24
See current sprint itemshttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&resolution=---&resolution=LATER&resolution=DUPLICATE&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&bug_status=ASSIGNED&email1=wikidata for what we’re working on next.
You can view the commits currently in review herehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:open,n,z and the ones that have been merged herehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:merged,n,z .
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata herehttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violationhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P512 for the academic degree (P512) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P512 property - Hack on one of thesehttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 . - Help develop the next summary here!https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next - Contribute to a Showcase itemhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia